Posted on 11/19/2007 3:37:47 PM PST by wagglebee
RUSH: Mark in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. Am I reading that right? Welcome to the program. Don't have my glasses on so I couldn't really read it, but I guessed and got it right.
CALLER: Yes you got it right, dittos, long-time listener, 24/7 member, and fellow talk show host inspired by you, my friend.
RUSH: Well.
CALLER: Been at it for five years on the Internet, think I've got the biggest show on the Internet, and I've got a big question for you.
RUSH: All right, ask away.
CALLER: All right. The question is this. I think the most conservative candidate that we have for president is Duncan Hunter, going through his website, listening to what he's got on the news, his different interviews and stuff, I mean he definitely meets the conservative agenda head on. And we're just not hearing a lot from him. And we're not hearing a lot from him, from you. And I'm wondering, sir, do you have any plans in the near future for interviews with him, for talking to him on the air? I mean, I did hear, you spoke about an e-mail update you got from him the other day, but other than that it looks like the best candidate here is not getting pushed by the strongest conservative people.
RUSH: Well, here's my answer to your question. I'm asked this a lot and historically I have not gotten involved in primaries, because if I had any of these people, and they have all asked to come on this show, and I respectfully say no, because I'd have to ask them all back. And I really don't look at this program as a campaign vehicle during primaries. Among other things, I, frankly, Mark, I have the belief that political candidates have a duty to get noticed themselves. It's an unfair process in terms -- Mrs. Clinton. Mrs. Clinton is strictly there because she didn't divorce her husband. In fact, she's strictly there because she married him. If her last name weren't Clinton, she'd be the dean of some all-girls' school in Albania touring villages at night and doing whatever you do in a village at night, when you run an all-girls' school. She's just benefiting from conventional wisdom. In the case of Rudy, the reason Rudy is getting a lot of attention is the northeastern bias in the media. The northeastern bias in the media wants two northeasterners to run.
Even some of our conservative journalist friends who are headquartered and work in the northeast, in New York and Washington, are willing to overlook, in some cases, the lack of genuine conservatism in some candidates because they're from the northeast. They have a geographical bias because of where they live. People in the northeast think it's at that it's the heartbeat and the pulse of the country there, and the rest of the country is flyover country and all of that. So it's tough to get out of the bottom tier. You need a really humongous debate performance, and you need an early announcement in some cases when you're going against somebody that's going to benefit from all the conventional wisdom, the media and others. But I sit and watch until one of them surfaces because that's what their job is to do, not mine.
Rudi and Romney ARE LIBERALS.
For whatever reason, despite Duncan Hunter’s sterling credentials, he just doesn’t inspire the electorate.
Exactly.
You don’t speak for me.
FINALLY. Rudy McRomney called out for what they are.
Rush implies that Rudy and Romney are liberals
Please show me were Rush says Mitt is a liberal?
or edit the title!
“CALLER: All right. The question is this. I think the most conservative candidate that we have for president is Duncan Hunter, going through his website, listening to what he’s got on the news, his different interviews and stuff, I mean he definitely meets the conservative agenda head on.
And we’re just not hearing a lot from him. And we’re not hearing a lot from him, from you. And I’m wondering, sir, do you have any plans in the near future for interviews with him, for talking to him on the air? I mean, I did hear, you spoke about an e-mail update you got from him the other day, but other than that it looks like the best candidate here is not getting pushed by the strongest conservative people.”
Excerpt from OP
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“I sure do like Hunter and wish he was doing better”
Hunter is not a multi millionaire where he can write a million dollars check here and there.
He really needs our grass roots support. Write an editor’s letter, call a talk show, and contribute to his campaign, what you can afford.
www.gohunter08.com
you are correct. i listened today.
but rush was clear that that it’s not his job to market the primary candidates.
The truth matters little to the Romney haters around here.
Duncan Hunter is a good man...but make no mistake, Fred Thompson is a true Conservative as well. Thompson supporters do not tear Duncan Hunter down...why should the Hunter people continue to say that Fred is not a true Conservative?
well maybe romney can sell off more companies that have to do with our national security to his chinese companies.
How is it that THOMPSON has not met your definition of conservatism?
Mulally spent 40 years as a comparatively unostentatious senior exec at Boeing. About a year ago he joined Ford Motor Company as president and CEO.
Is a Congressional pardon Constitutional?
The “tank” tancredo is just as conservative as hunter. And I’d say FDT is very very close, so close he can be considered equally as conservative as far as I’m concerned.
I’ll give you a hint. Hannity ain’t that bright. If his show were on first thing in the morning, he’d have no idea what to say. He’s one of the ppl for whom Rush’s show is “show prep.” Hannity’s demographic is different, too. He’s geared more to women. And I mean that as an insult.
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